Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

Several of Corpinnat’s current 11 members—Gramona, Recaredo, Llopart—are favorites of American sommeliers. “I Such a wine proves that, when terroir is respected and the wine is long-aged, even a company churning out more than 30 million bottles per year can produce one that sommeliers of Paronella’s status can declare “beautiful.”

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I had the infamously cold Gibson , with the bar’s house-pickled onion, and thought about a first date in 2013 where I sat at the table beside the piano with the woman I would go on to marry. Longtime Varnish manager Max Seaman, who now works as a sommelier at Republique in Miracle Mile, agrees.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Whether the aim of a bottle is to seem in the know about new wine trends, or about historically popular grapes and regions, a sommelier can help identify the right bottle. To smooth the holiday wine-buying this year, we asked 22 sommeliers to recommend their favorite wine to gift. Chris Ray, sommelier, Lutce , Washington, D.C.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Tim Riley first began reviewing energy drinks in 2021, when his wife joked that his habit of tasting sugary caffeine beverages with his skillset as a sommelier could make for a good TikTok bit. She testified in Congress over problematic practices in the energy drink industry in 2013. A decade later, Harris says not much has changed.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In 2013, the Smithsonian Institution named the winning Cabernet as one of the Objects that Made America, and one of the final remaining bottles is housed in the institutions National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Stags Leap Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon that took home the top prize, forever leaving its mark on the region.

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VinePair

APRIL 9, 2025

When hunger strikes, try to secure a reservation at The Butchers Son, the Michelin-star restaurant led by chef Bert-Jan Michielsen and sommelier Luc Dickens. Though the brand was acquired by Molson Coors in 2013, the pub and brewery remained in the hands of its original owner, Shane Long.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A bombing there destroyed the winerys stock of its most valuable cuve, Soloking, made partly from the last grapes harvested from independent Crimea, in 2013, and aged for 72 months. Schneider says that he recently tasted Telti Kuruk with Pascaline Lepeltier, the well-known sommelier, and it reminded her of other ancient varieties, he said.

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